Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prizes
The Gerald R. Ford Foundation’s Journalism Prizes award two distinguished candidates each year for reporting on the presidency and national defense. These prizes, initiated in 1988, recognize reportorial excellence and the fostering of better public understanding of the presidency and national defense. The two prizes are presented to the winners at a National Press Club luncheon. Journalists may apply directly, or they may be nominated by others. Both prizes recognize reportorial excellence as reflected by resourcefulness, insight, quality of writing, and brevity. Candidates for either prize should have compiled a year-long record of consistent, judicious, sensitive, and noteworthy coverage. The goal of each prize is to recognize the quality of a journalist’s work during the year, rather than any single article.
For the presidency prize, reporting should address ways that the president sets policy and makes decisions, how the president initiates programs and responds to events, how the president relies on cabinet and senior staff, and the structure and functioning of White House operations.
For the defense prize, reporting should address Department of Defense operations, military operations, defense resource management, military preparedness, international arms control, or other national security issues.
Amount: $5,000
Deadline: March 7
